Intrigue continues to swirl around events last week in which Israel appears to have targeted advanced Syrian anti-aircraft SA-17 missiles that Jerusalem suspected of being bound for Hezbollah. Inconclusive reports described strikes on both a convoy of the missiles and on a Syrian military facility. New reports based on Syrian television broadcasts indicate...

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A suicide bomber from a far-left Turkish group opposed to U.S.-Turkish ties detonated himself in front of the US embassy in Ankara on Friday, killing a Turkish security guard. The attacker managed to enter American property and the U.S. State Department described the attack as a “terrorist blast.” Turkey’s government has been...

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While both the Arab League and the Iranian regime have condemned reported Israeli strikes on Syrian military assets, British Foreign Secretary William Hague has indicated that London is “not going to give any condemnation of Israel or rush into any criticism.” Reports emerged earlier this week that Israel had struck either a weapons...

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Syria’s ambassador to Lebanon has reserved for Damascus the ability to launch a “surprise retaliation” against Israel, a day after reports emerged of multiple Israeli Air Force operations designed to bolster Israel’s “red line” against the transfer of Syria’s nonconventional arsenal. Reports first emerged early Wednesday that Jerusalem had struck...

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Al Qaeda is infiltrating Lebanon, building on the momentum and successes of Al Qaeda-linked groups in Syria. A new report names Majid al-Majid as the terrorist group’s new emir in the country, and suggests that Al Qaeda has a “roadmap” for a Lebanon takeover that includes targeting political figures, religious...

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Israeli Air Force jets conducted an overnight strike against a convoy of advanced weapons being transferred from Syria to Damascus’s Lebanese ally Hezbollah, according to reports that emerged early Wednesday. Israeli officials and international analysts have been expressing increasingly pointed concerns regarding the security of Syria’s nonconventional arsenal, which is...

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An al Qaeda-linked group has claimed responsibility for an attack last week that killed at least 42 people. The al-Nusra Front, which has declared that the United States and Israel are enemies of Islam and is considered to be a terrorist organization by those countries, announced the group’s responsibility for the car...

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Eight people were killed Thursday when a car bomb exploded in the Syrian town of Saasa, the latest mass casualty incident in an ongoing Syrian civil war. That the incident happened in Saasa, located in the Syrian Golan just 14 miles from the Israel-Syria border, increases concerns that the now two-year war...

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The Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad is mobilizing civilians and turning them into paramilitary forces, according to a Syrian NGO. Reports from the ground in the war-torn country have proven notoriously unreliable, but one of the paramilitary groups – part of a newly dubbed National Defense Army – is described...

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Israel is the only Middle Eastern country to rate as “free,” according to the latest annual report by Freedom House, a top U.S.-based pro-democracy NGO. Israel is an anomaly in its region, with many of its neighbors receiving negative ratings, and Syria – until recently advocated by many foreign policy analysts...

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